Marenta wrote:As a person who has been exposed to radiation from nuclear power, I can say, that receiving 1 rem of radiation at any one point in your life does NOT increase the chances of you developing cancer.
Hell, you get 300 millirem a year just living. AND, you get more exposure being up 35,000 feet in an airplane than you do walking through the blue screens.
I'm just not afraid of radiation. I know what dose is required to kill me and I know how long I have to be in an environment before it gets lethal. But, then again, I also like just having the comfort of the extra screening process.
Having studied science a lot too, I do not dispute the above arguments ... as we know it today.
I also get X-rays for dental work. And, undergo a radioactive heart screen every two years to verify that my bypasses are working correctly.
But, if there is an alternative, why should I voluntarily subject myself to extra radiation - however minimal - when there is no gain and where there are alternatives?
So, I will opt-out ... if
everybody does this often enough, then one of two things will happen: (a) it become rigidly enforced
, or,
I hope, it will be abandoned!
BTW, the "extra screening process" argument falls flat with me ... we do not get increased security by these tactics used by the TSA.
Simple example today: I flew on a commercial flight and didn't go through the scan. Why? Because the lines got too long, so the TSA had to shut them
all down! What "extra screening" did that provide?
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